Verbascum thapsus is a dicotyledonous plant that produces a rosette of leaves in its first year of growth.
Verbascum thapsus has a wide native range including Europe, northern Africa and Asia, from the Azores and Canary Islands east to western China, north to the British Isles, Scandinavia and Siberia, and south to the Himalayas.
Verbascum thapsus is used in tribal medicine as an antispasmodic, anti-tubercular agent and wormicide.
Finally, I dug up a browned-out mullein stalk (Verbascum thapsus), a weedy visitor that had appeared one spring next to my corn patch.
For the purpose of botanical nomenclature, Verbascum thapsus was first described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 1753.
Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare), common mullein (Verbascum thapsus), and Klamath weed (Hypericum perforatum) have been identified as noxious pests in Yosemite since the 1940s.
Cercocarpus montanus, Rhus trilobata, and Yucca glauca dominate the shrub layer, while Stipa comata, Bromus tectorum, Helianthus pumilus, Sporobolus cryptandrus, Bouteloua hirsuta, and Verbascum thapsus are important in the herbaceous layer (Peet 1981).
Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae), an edible plant, accumulated greater than 100 µg g−1 of several metals, including Ni and Cr, but was not recommended for phytoremediation efforts.
Verbascum thapsus (great mullein or common mullein) is a species of mullein native to Europe, northern Africa, and Asia, and introduced in the Americas and Australia.
Mullein (Verbascum thapsus), he said, is bigger.
Valerianaceae Dicot Native A − + + + Verbascum thapsus L. Scrophulariaceae Dicot Alien B In + + + − Verbena officinalis L. Verbenaceae Dicot Native A + + + + Veronica agrestis L. Scrophulariaceae Dicot Native A + + + + Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. Scrophulariaceae Dicot Alien A Nt − + − − Veronica persica Poir.
